In English

KJR & Assoc. Inc. is
one of the very few Canadian companies that specialize in the
restoration of historic pipe-organs. Started in 1978 as a tuning and
maintenance business, it has expanded over the years to include major
restorations and rebuilds, working primarily in the Montreal area, as
well as in the Ottawa Valley, the Maritimes, Southern Ontario and the
Northeastern United States.

With its dedicated group
of pipe-organ enthusiasts, who bring a wide variety of expertise to
the craft of organ building, KJR & Assoc. Inc. prides itself in
being able to provide impeccable personalized service to its
clientele, at very competitive rates.

The company's
well-equipped workshop and storage facility is situated near Lachute,
Québec, conveniently located about an hour's drive from both
Montreal and Ottawa.

Karl J. Raudsepp, the
owner and supervising craftsman of KJR & Assoc. Inc., has taught
Music History, Theory and Aural Perception at Concordia University,
Montreal, since 1983. He holds Bachelor's and Master's degrees in
Music Theory from McGill University, and apprenticed with Hellmuth
Wolff before forming KJR & Assoc. Inc.' As well, Karl is
organist at St. John’s Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church in
Montreal. He currently heads the Music program in the Theatre &
Music Department at John Abbott College.

Karl has been very active
in the organization of several Montreal pipe-organ conventions,
notably the 1985 RCCO National Convention, and was the Chairman of
the Organizing Committee of the Fifth International Congress of
Organists, ICO '93. From 1987 until 2009, he was the co-ordinator of
the Lynnwood Farnam Organ Competition (formerly the John Robb Organ
Competition) in Québec. As of 2005, Karl is also a member of the
RCCO National Historic Organ Committee.

From June 2000 until June
2004, Karl served two terms as the President of the Montreal Centre
of the RCCO. He was formally presented with the Distinguished
Service Award by the Royal Canadian College of Organists, at the
Winnipeg Convocation, on July 21, 2004. The Montreal Centre of the
RCCO presented him with their Distinguished Service Award in 2009.

In
2008, Karl was awarded the Estonian-Canadian Medal of Merit for
outstanding contributions to preserving and enhancing Estonian
heritage and culture in Canada, and in 2011 he was presented with the
“Koostöömedal” by the Archbishop of the Estonian Evangelical
Lutheran Church, Tallinn, for his contributions to Estonian church
music.

As a consultant, he has
produced reports on over 30 historic pipe-organs and related organ
research in Québec, for the Ministère des Affaires culturelles,
Direction du Patrimoine. He is the author of The Organs of Montreal,
Vol. 1 and has written extensively about pipe-organs, organbuilders
and organ related topics (see Publications). His ongoing research
focuses on compiling a definitive biography of Samuel Russell Warren,
Canada's first organbuilder of international renown.